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November 8, 1985|By Orange

If you know anyone in the Soviet Union, and have any way to get uncensored mail through, you might send along these excerpts from President Reagan's answers to questions posed by four Soviet journalists. These excerpts are among those that didn't make it into the full-page version of the interview, appearing in the Soviet newspaper Izvestia Sunday. Here's what the Soviets were trying to hide:

On nuclear weapons: ''We are for, and have for several years now been advocating, a reduction in the number of nuclear weapons.''

On North Korea and the Korean War: ''And that was not an American war, even though we provided . . . most of the men. That war was fought under the flag of the United Nations. The United Nations found North Korea guilty of aggression in violation of the charter of the U.N.''

On Afghanistan: ''The government which invited the Soviet troops in didn't have any choice because the government was put there by the Soviet Union and put there with the force of arms. . . .''

On comparisons between the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and the U.S. invasion of Grenada: ''The Soviet troops have been in Afghanistan for six years now, fighting all that time. We did what we were asked to do . . . and came home.''

On the SALT 1 and SALT 2 treaties: ''I was waiting for a question that would allow me to point out that, under the detente which we had for a few years, during which we signed the SALT 1 and SALT 2 treaties, the Soviet Union added over 7,000 warheads to its arsenals. And we have fewer than we had in 1969.''